General Defense Committee

Day 21 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Gloria Richardson was a pivotal figure in the Civil Rights Movement and a dynamic advocate for the dismantlement of the white power structure. She was born into…

Day 20 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Assata Olugbala Shakur (born 1947 as Joanne Deborah Byron) was a Black Liberation fighter, author, and a political fugitive who was formerly apart of the Black Panthers…

Day 19 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series While the United States commemorates Harriet Tubman today, in her lifetime her struggle for the liberation of enslaved Africans had her in the crosshairs of the state.…

Day 18 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Black tenant farmers in the 1930s had all the reason in the world to resist capitalism. As anti-capitalist struggles took hold globally, these ideas found fertile soil…

Day 17 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Jalil Muntaqim was born in 1951 in Oakland, CA and as a teenager joined the Black Panther Party. After the assassination of MLK he came to believe that…

Day 16 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Joshua Williams is a political prisoner who protested and fought back against police terrorism during the Ferguson uprising of 2014. His favorite color is red and his…

Day 15 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Safiya Bukhari is legendary in the movement to free Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War. When she transitioned to the ancestors in 2003, Mumia Abu-Jamal referred to…

Day 14 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Sekou Odinga was a Black revolutionary and political prisoner, born in 1944 in New York City.  “My name is Sekou Odinga. Some of us have never agreed…

Day 13 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 Born 1962 in Brooklyn NY, Reverend Joyce Blake Powell is a Pentecostal pastor, activist, organizer, mother, writer and poet. A black woman targeted by the state because of…

Day 12 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Born in 1953, Kamau Sadiki is a loving father, grandfather, Muslim, veteran Black Panther and member of the New Afrikan Independence movement. He has been unjustly imprisoned…